{"id":35725,"date":"2025-09-22T04:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35725\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:23:07","slug":"apple-takes-bite-out-of-competition-as-queues-form-for-long-awaited-iphone-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35725\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple takes bite out of competition as queues form for long-awaited iPhone 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past four years, some <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/apple?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple<\/a> customers have been waiting for a significant redesign before buying a new <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/iphone?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iPhone<\/a>. The time has come for those consumers, with the iPhone 17 Pro, Pro Max and iPhone Air going on sale.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is the first time since 2020 that Apple has rolled out several new phone designs. Alongside the new handsets, it also released the Apple Watch SE, Watch Series 11, Watch Ultra 3 and AirPods Pro 3 into stores on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new phones, which bring a fresh look in addition to battery life and camera improvements, attracted long lines at Apple stores from Hong Kong to London to New York to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the Fifth Avenue location in Manhattan, a line for walk-ins \u2013 people who had not pre-ordered a device to pick up \u2013 wrapped around the block, extending to Madison Avenue. Many shoppers indicated they were upgrading belatedly from Apple\u2019s four-year-old iPhone 13 series.<\/p>\n<p>In Frankfurt, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/germany?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Germany<\/a>, about 100 people gathered around midday, including some who had travelled long distances.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Customers wait outside the Apple Store during the launch of the new iPhone 17 in Puerta del Sol on Friday. Photo: SOPA\/dpa\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7e049514-640f-4c1c-a0e3-e59b88a82ab3_03213727.jpg\" title=\"Customers wait outside the Apple Store during the launch of the new iPhone 17 in Puerta del Sol on Friday. Photo: SOPA\/dpa\"\/>Customers wait outside the Apple Store during the launch of the new iPhone 17 in Puerta del Sol on Friday. Photo: SOPA\/dpa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Julia Sowden, an online creator, said she had trekked about 100km (62 miles) to Frankfurt to get the iPhone 17 Pro Max in orange. She was replacing her iPhone 13 Pro Max, whose battery had seen better days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past four years, some Apple customers have been waiting for a significant redesign before buying a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9712,936,3080,114,27677,27675,27672,14726,27673,240,6160,61,12128,27674,60,99,116,27676,2393,4320,16113,573,80,23579,3056,2215],"class_list":{"0":"post-35725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alphabet","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-apple-watch-se","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-cupertino","13":"tag-design-it-for-us","14":"tag-fifth-avenue","15":"tag-frankfurt","16":"tag-gabelli-funds","17":"tag-hong-kong","18":"tag-huawei-technologies","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-iphone-air","21":"tag-iphone-pro","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-london","24":"tag-los-angeles","25":"tag-magsafe","26":"tag-meta-platforms","27":"tag-new-york","28":"tag-oppo","29":"tag-samsung","30":"tag-technology","31":"tag-tim-cook","32":"tag-wall-street","33":"tag-xiaomi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}